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Jessica Lichtenstein
Do They Make a Sound Pastel 1 R, C-Print on Acrylic, Digital Painting, Signed
2020

About the Item

Artist Jessica Lichtenstein uses the female body as a mechanism to explore deeper themes of power, female representation, fetishism and objectification. Her work plays with the boundaries of power, commercialization, consumerism, fantasy and propriety, provoking tensions that challenge the viewer. For her latest series “…Do They Make A Sound?” she created an immersive installation at SPRING/BREAK Art Show 2020, curated by Indira Cesarine for The Untitled Space, that includes a forest scene made out of 1000’s of digital renderings of the female form. The faceless, repeating effeminate forms represent both the community of women in the world and the individual characteristics that make up a single woman. Varied body positions differentiate each figure and yet harmoniously contribute to the texture of the leafy, vibrant trees that unifies them. Fascinated by the mass-production and fetishization of hyper-sexualized Japanese figurines, Lichtenstein manipulates the presentation and context of mass-produced anime dolls in order to imbue them with new associations and richer meaning. The artist, a graduate of Yale University, has exhibited her work extensively in solo and group shows over the last decade including at Allouche Gallery, UNIX Gallery, The Untitled Space, DAM Gallery Duesseldorf, Blank Space NY, Waterfall Mansion NY, PULSE Contemporary Art Fair, Art Southampton, Scope Art Show, Untitled Art Fair, among many others. In 2013, Lichtenstein started creating landscape pieces that infused women as the foliage of trees, in order to investigate the simultaneous anonymity and specificity of the female characters. From a distance, her silhouettes resemble blossoming trees. Look closer, however, and you’ll notice that each flower is a female body contorted into a unique position. The hyper-sexualized physiques are faceless, alluding to the male gaze’s tendency to reduce women to their bodily parts. But for Lichtenstein, these women are in the midst of a revolution. “These women are emerging from the shadows and revealing themselves, revealing their stories,” she states of her figures. Lichtenstein’s landscapes teeming with women offer a vision of a fertile future, where women’s bodies form a lush army that is both sensual and strong. Their figures pay tribute to the female form’s extensive art historical precedent, as their teeming abundance hints at a highly anticipated uprising. For SPRING/BREAK Art Show 2020, Lichtenstein’s immersive installation and exhibition pondered the question, “If a tree falls in the forest, do they make a sound?” The exhibition presents a forest scene, with trees falling and leaves, in the form of tiny female figures, scattering. The viewer becomes fully engaged in her conceptual landscape which features snippets of news carved into the trees like love notes. The floor becomes a reflection of the scene with the leaves in the shape of girls echoing statements as well as the voices, the “sounds” of these women. To create her environment the artist builds the landscape with layers upon layers of images, a literal bombardment of colors and characters. Viewers were able to explore and discover unique details throughout the scene that play with notions of perception, including hidden moments and words that with closer view reveal themselves. “My work has always focused on female form. The trees to me not only represent a landscape of women, but a new archetype for women in the workplace, women in public office, women as presidents… literally a world teaming with women. But there’s also a fragility to the forest and the trees. There are winds that blow, there are storms. What happens when you get knocked off the tree, what happens during the fall?” - Artist Jessica Lichtenstein Each unique artwork within the installation was presented as a digital painting mounted on 2.5 inches of acrylic, finished to a beautiful presentation with beveled edges. “…Do They Make A Sound?” was highlighted as one of the best exhibitions of SPRING/BREAK Art Show 2020 in a number of publications including Artnet, Fortune, Art Zealous, Art & Object, Hyperallergic, Cool Hunting, Eazel, Gothamist Magazine and more.

Creator:
Jessica Lichtenstein (American)
Creation Year:
2020
Dimensions:
Height: 13 in (33.02 cm)Width: 24 in (60.96 cm)Depth: 2.5 in (6.35 cm)
Medium:
Plexiglass,Archival Ink,Archival Paper,Digital
Movement & Style:
Contemporary
Period:
2010-
Condition:
Gallery Location:
New York, NY
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU120215905252

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